Leadership Team
Robert Samples
CEO
Robert Samples is a highly qualified executive professional with extensive experience directing all executive operations for various healthcare facilities, including hospitals, clinical operations, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing, CCRCs, and long-term care organizations. He is experienced in business development, physician and referral source relations, negotiating managed care contracts, strategic development and planning, quantitative analysis, marketing management, acquisitions and mergers, human resource management, and streamlining workflow processes to increase profitability. Robert comes to Landmark with more than 20 years of healthcare experience, with his previous experience being the President of a long-term care organization in Oklahoma.
Robert received his Bachelor’s in Business Management and Master’s in Business Administration from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma.
Toby Vance
Director of Business Development
Janice Nordstrom
HR Director
Janice began her career with Landmark Hospital of Joplin as an HR Manager in September 2011. Janice has 35 years of Human Resource experience in various fields, including retail and manufacturing. In 2018, due to a Human Resource restructuring, Janice was promoted to Regional HR Director for the Missouri Hospitals, where she enjoyed working with the entire Missouri team. Janice is HR Director for the Joplin facility after the other Missouri Landmarks brought back in-house HR. Janice’s favorite thing about HR is the unique opportunity to impact employees' lives in various ways. Each day brings new inquiries, employee interactions, and in-facility demands requiring empathy, problem-solving skills, and strategic thinking. When not at work, Janice enjoys family time with her husband of 50 years, two sons and their wives, who are her bonus daughters, and 4 grandchildren, who are all brilliant, loving individuals, and 1 very spoiled Yorkie.